[image_with_animation image_url=”7322″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] No color combination has more vitality than red and green, and no other combination has potential to induce so much nausea from oversaturated application, most commonly in wrapping paper on a magical day like today. This is the one day in the whole year I find myself longing to be jewish, just for the Hanukkah blue and silver. [image_with_animation image_url=”7314″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There have been a few paintings I made work with a red/green palette. I used pyrrole black (a dark green) and transparent earth red with cadmiums in my last series to lovely effect. Together, the two transparent compliments made black. With white, the green turned a beautiful turquoise. Some mix of the two made a beautiful neutral.
Ruthie V, Red Kimono, 2016
Ruthie V, Small, 2016
Ruthie V, Shiro Nuri, 2016
” load_in_animation=”none Below is a collection of paintings with red and green used for the dominant palette. You’ll see a couple from Delacroix, who wrote about the usefulness of complementary colors for shadows, and to increase energy in his paintings. You’ll also see a few by impressionists, who frequently added blue to balance the two. It’s a tricky combination to maneuver, but if you can do it, they give an energy to the painting can’t be matched.
Eugene Delacroix, The Good Samaritan, 1849
Delacroix, The Entombment
Charles W. Hawthorne (American, 1872-1930)
Double Portrait of Two Children Wearing Red and Green Dresses, American Folkart. 1820-1830
The Red Lacquer Cabinet by Archibald George Barnes (British, 1887–1972)
Archibald George Barnes, “Reverie”
Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Red Zinnia, 1891
Claude Monet, Poppies, 1873
Van Gogh, Poppies
Alexey Georgievich Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Poissons Rouges, Matisse 1911
Emil Nolde (1867-1956) South sea island, 1915
Rippl-Rónai, József – Room with Green Armchair
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin, Little Breton Bather, 1888
Woman in Red in the Forest, c.1907 – Henri Rousseau
Van Gogh
NightCafe, Van Gogh 1888
Gauguin, Mme. Ginoux in the Cafe at Arles (1888)
Paul Gauguin
Paul Klee, Red Green Architecture yellow violet gradation, 1922.
City Picture with Red and Green Accents, 1921, Paul Klee.
Ceri Richards (1903-1971), Red & Green Interior
Ceri Richards (1903-1971), Homage to Beethoven
Allen Jones
1960s Andy Warhol
Rothko
Jack Bush, Red Orange Green – 1963-65
Michael Dailey, December Night (blue, red, green), 1968, Kucera Gallery
Red Blue Green, Gerhard Richter
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Matisse, Red / Green
Poissons Rouges, Matisse 1911
Henri Matisse “Still Life With Lemons”
Plum Blossoms, Green Background 1948 Matisse
Matisse, The Dance
Matisse, The Music
Studio and Garden, Matisse
Matisse, White Alga on Red and Green Background 1947
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[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
Red / Green Paintings
[image_with_animation image_url=”7322″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] No color combination has more vitality than red and green, and no other combination has potential to induce so much nausea from oversaturated application, most commonly in wrapping paper on a magical day like today. This is the one day in the whole year I find myself longing to be jewish, just for the Hanukkah blue and silver. [image_with_animation image_url=”7314″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There have been a few paintings I made work with a red/green palette. I used pyrrole black (a dark green) and transparent earth red with cadmiums in my last series to lovely effect. Together, the two transparent compliments made black. With white, the green turned a beautiful turquoise. Some mix of the two made a beautiful neutral.
Matisse, Red / Green
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